On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Kustaa Nyholm <kustaa.nyh...@planmeca.com> wrote: > On 10.2.2013 3.03, "Xiaofan Chen" <xiaof...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>As for the implementation, you can see that Peter is not >>satisfied with the Linux implementation. He has a good >>point about udev not always available, especially among >>Android and other embedded Linux platform. > > He also made a comment that this would be built time > decision (using udev or what's-the-other-option). > > Now, I find that disturbing this seems to imply something > that I as an application developer would not like.
Why? That is kind of the norm for Linux. The user's system will either have a udev available or the other alternative mdev available. It is not that bad to ask the user to build libusbx there. And you can also build two version of libusbx binary and during the installation you can detect the user system and install the proper libusbx binary. With the fragmentation on the embedded Linux side (including Android), I do not see it possible to provide single Linux binary to be suitable for different Linux system. That is the job of the distros. And if the distro does not provide the binary, then the user is expected to do that... > What I want is to be able to bundle a version that I > have tested my application with in binary > form that does not require compiling by the end user or > him/her getting it from somewhere else. > > So I would not like to go that route. > I think it is not that feasible for Linux (including Android and other embedded Linux variants), They are not like the iOS and Windows RT system where the system are locked and the only way (without jailbreak) to install software is through the vendor provided app store. Over the long run, I think open system (standard Windows, Linux/Android, etc ) will still win, especially when the system gets more and more powerful to do more and more things. -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
